Railways run high speed freight trains across country amid lockdown

New Delhi: Even because the Indian Railways suspended passenger, mail and specific trains to fight the unfold of coronavirus, the nationwide transporter has launched the progressive concept of tremendous heavy quick particular freight trains to move extra important objects throughout the nation.

A railway ministry spokesperson in an announcement mentioned, “To ensure delivery of bigger volumes at a faster speed, Indian Railways have innovated by joining two freight trains together.”

He mentioned the success tales and improvements have come from Northern Railway and South Central Railway.

He mentioned that two freight trains loaded from two completely different originating stations are clubbed on the nearest junction level and moved as single prepare as much as the widespread junction level of the vacation spot stations taking the benefit of path availability as a consequence of non-running of passenger trains.

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“This concept drastically reduces the journey time of the freight trains to their respective destinations,” he mentioned.

The official mentioned that Annapoorna trains from north and Jai Kisan Particular from south mark the start of lengthy distance tremendous heavy quick particular freight trains.

He mentioned the Northern Railway has fashioned 5,000 tonne lead lengthy haul loaded foodgrain trains and 25 such Annapoorna trains have been fashioned and run by NR upto April 16. “They covered the states like Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Mizoram. These long lead long haul foodgrain trains have gone up to New Bongaigaon (NBQ) in North Frontier Railway (NFR),” he mentioned.

He additional mentioned that as a part of this endeavour, now the South Central Railway too has give you a singular idea of working “Jai Kisan” particular freight trains in order to make sure speedy supply of meals grains to completely different components of the nation.

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He mentioned the primary Jai Kisan prepare was moved from Dornakal Junction in Telangana on South Central Railway to Southern Railway (Sevuru and Chettinad) by clubbing two meals grains trains at Dornakal Junction.

Equally, the second Jai Kisan particular prepare was additionally clubbed at Dornakal Junction in Telangana and moved to Southern Railway (Dindigal and Mudiyapakkam).

The official mentioned that these trains have registered a median pace of 44 kmph, fulfilling the target of speedy motion of the important commodities.

The official additional mentioned that the nationwide transporter has loaded greater than 3.2 million tonnes of meals grains between April 1 to April 16 as in comparison with 1.29 million tonnes in the identical corresponding interval final 12 months.

The nationwide transporter is working solely particular parcel trains and freight trains to make sure the availability of important objects throughout the nation.